On May 15, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> At Sat, 14 May 2011 20:58:53 -0700, John Clements wrote: >>> I've been having trouble with an older PLaneT package, and I've finally >>> narrowed it down to a problem with the change in version-numberings. >>> >>> Specifically, I install Jens Soegaard's gzip.plt package (which installs all >>> right), and then I can't use it. The problem turns out to be that planet >>> won't >>> let me run it, because it thinks that the required & provided versions of >>> racket are >>> >>> #(struct:mz-version 40000 0) >>> #(struct:mz-version 501 1005) >>> >>> ... so I just need to wait for version 400.00 to come out! >>> >>> I see how I can hack around this problem by editing the required-version in >>> the >>> info.ss file, but if I'm correct, this means that no planet packages that >>> precede the version-numbering change can be used. It seems hard to believe >>> that this wouldn't have been noticed, though, so perhaps I'm wrong... >> >> The version number change happened on February 4, but we decided that >> it was a bad idea, and it was reverted on March 28. So, the version was >> 400 for all releases, and it's still 400. >> >> It's possible that some planet packages were created with a pre-release >> version in between 2/4 and 3/28, in which case those need to be fixed. >> I don't think that's the case for "gzip.plt", though. >> >> It sounds instead like you're using a pre-release version of Racket >> from between 2/4 and 3/28. Is that right? If so, the solution would be >> to upgrade. > > One other possible wrinkle here is that planet may be doing its own > computation instead of using the version libraries (as the planet > version checking mechanism pre-dates the version library, I believe), > so there could also be a bug there.
Yes, I still observe this problem on version 5.1.1.5. Should PLaneT be using the version collection? Let me know if you want me to do more detective work on this. John
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